Iranian state radio says a member of a council that advises Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has died after after falling ill from the new coronavirus. The report Monday said Expediency Council member Mohammad Mirmohammadi had died. He was 71. The council advises Khamenei,...

 Iraqi security forces killed one person and wounded 24 at an anti-government protest in Baghdad Sunday, a police source said. The person was killed by birdshot fired from a hunting rifle and some of the injuries were caused by birdshot and tear gas, the source added.

 On the eve of Israel’s third election in a year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been urging supporters to mount a final push to win the one or two more seats he says he needs to form a government. But as he campaigns, another force in Israeli politics - the Arab minority - is...

Lebanon’s banking lobby made a last-ditch appeal to the government to avoid a debt default and instead offer a swap into new notes for all bondholders. In the clutches of its worst financial crisis in decades, Lebanon is running out of time to decide how to handle a debt burden that...